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Books · Mar 2023

More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

Meredith Broussard

A powerful work by NYU professor, data scientist, and one of the few Black women AI researchers, Meredith Broussard. Reveals how tech neutrality is a myth and algorithms need accountability. From facial recognition only trained on lighter skin tones, to mortgage algorithms encouraging discriminatory lending, to dangerous feedback loops in medical diagnostic algorithms. Solution isn't making omnipresent tech more inclusive, but rooting out algorithms that target demographics as 'other.'

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Books · Sep 2022

The Transgender Issue

Shon Faye

Shon Faye argues that trans justice is inseparable from healthcare, housing, work, sex work, prison, migration, class, and social justice.

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Books · Jul 2020

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

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Books · May 2020

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

Liat Ben-Moshe

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

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Books · Nov 2019

The Charisma Machine

Morgan G. Ames

Drawing on fieldwork in Paraguay, Morgan G. Ames follows One Laptop per Child to show how technological salvation projects universalize privileged childhoods and erase teachers, care, and infrastructure.

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Books · Jul 2019

A Terrible Thing to Waste

Harriet A. Washington

Harriet A. Washington studies how environmental racism harms Black, Latinx, and Native communities through lead, pollution, toxic exposure, and policy neglect.

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Books · Mar 2019

Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

Danielle Sered

Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

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Books · Jan 2018

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Virginia Eubanks

Investigating welfare, homeless housing, and child protection, Virginia Eubanks shows how automation disguises austerity as neutral efficiency and subjects poor people to continuous surveillance.

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Books · Apr 2010

Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Elizabeth Maier, Nathalie Lebon

An edited collection on social justice, citizenship, and democratizing struggles led by women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Books · Jan 2010

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

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Books · Jan 1886

The Memoirs of Louise Michel

Mémoires de Louise Michel, écrits par elle-mêmeLouise Michel

The Memoirs of Louise Michel is the autobiography of the famous 19th-century anarchist, feminist, and Paris Commune fighter Louise Michel. It chronicles her combat experiences during the Paris Commune, her subsequent exile, and her unwavering belief in social justice, women's liberation, and anarchist ideals.